arfdawg-1 Shortly before she is to be married, a young woman gets a visit from her fiancé's wife, who had been missing for seven years and presumed dead. Soon both the girl and her fiancé find themselves mixed up with a crooked nightclub owner, gangsters and murder.It's a nifty little very low budget film.Will keep your interest more or less.Not sure why they cant make these sorts of movies today. With video being so cheap it should be a shoe in.Guess no one is writing this stuff anymore.Best part -- the guy who played the father on the TV show Dennis the Menance is in it!

dougdoepke Okay, not much can be expected from quickie director Sam Newfield or an independent outfit like Alexander-Stern. Then too, the production never does rise above bare-bones status. However, the script does show imaginative twists plus dashes of snappy dialog. In short, the 60- minutes manages to be better than expected, even if the lighting bill couldn't exceed a buck fifty. So who killed meanie wife Norma, who, all in all, should have stayed dead. That's the whodunit part. But, in a neat twist, the last part turns unexpectedly into a nail-biting suspenser.Got to admit I didn't recognize cult favorite Hughes in dark hair and even, surprise, surprise, playing a good girl, which she does well. Then too, there's Beaver Cleaver's dad, Beaumont, playing what else but somebody's husband. At least, he doesn't have a couple kids to amusingly cope with. Anyhow, kudos to the writers for rising above the usual formula, and maybe to Newfield for noirish direction. All in all, the little flick's a cut better than the standard programmer.

MartinHafer Despite this being a low budget B-movie, I enjoyed "The Lady Confesses". Part of it is because although the story is rather familiar, the film has some nice twists to keep it interesting and that show the writers were at their best.The film begins with a lady learning that her fiancé's long-lost wife has suddenly shown up--just before she is to marry the guy (Hugh Beaumont)! Hugh responds to this by going off on a bender. Finally, a lady in a night club feels sorry for him and asks her to use a nearby room to sleep it off for the night. However, when he awakens in the morning, his wife has been murdered. Now he's the #1 suspect, as he had so much to gain by her death. But, his fiancée is determined to work behind the scenes to determine who REALLY murdered the wife.As I said, it was a nice film because there were some good twists (which I won't tell you about because it would spoil it). And, although I've seen him in quite a few films, it's nice to see a young Beaumont (Beaver's dad from "Leave It To Beaver") in such a role. A nice combination of mystery, suspense and a bit of noir.

kidboots P.R.C. was one of the more humble poverty row studios - it's staple was westerns but it did have the occasional standout - "Bluebeard" (1944), "Strange Illusion" (1945), "Apology for Murder" (1945) and "Detour" (1945). "The Lady Confesses", with a few red herrings, at least has your attention right to the end.Just before her marriage to Larry Craig (Hugh Beaumont), Vicki (Mary Beth Hughes) receives a visit from Larry's first wife - she hasn't been heard of for 7 years and was presumed dead. She is very much alive but not for long. Larry already knows she is in town but when they call around to see her (as you would at 2 in the morning) it is to discover that she has been killed. Of course everyone (including the police) is surprised and none more so than Larry, but he has a airtight alibi - he was completely "lit up" (drunk) according to the bartender and slept for a few hours on singer Lucille Compton's (Claudia Drake) couch - or did he??? Vicki decides to do some investigating on her own, starting at the questionable 711 Club where she gets a job as a table photographer (even though she forgets to take the lens cap off the camera - silly girl!!!) All fingers point to Lucky Brandon (an actor who is a dead ringer for Billy DeWolfe), the suspicious night club owner - he is very secretive about his movements and is the only person not to vouch for Larry. Larry himself is odd - he is moody and surly and often rings Vicki up at strange hours. Lucille is just about to tell Vicki something about Larry - when the police chief breaks up their conversation. Lucille appeared very tense.Hugh Beaumont, before his "Leave it to Beaver" TV show and even before he was Michael Shayne in a group of PRC released films from the end of the 40s had a prominent part in Val Lewton's "The Seventh Victim" (1943). Surprisingly, it was then back to uncredited bits before he scored the leading role in "The Lady Confesses". I can't find any information about Claudia Drake but the couple of films I have seen her in she played singers and mostly sang more than she acted - so I guess she must have started out as a band singer. She is quite good and really deserved a better go in films.